Из лавок высовываются сонные физиономии, и скоро около дровяного склада, словно из земли выросши, собирается толпа.
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Sleepy faces poke out of the shops, and soon a crowd has gathered by the timber yard, as though it had sprung up out of the ground.
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Он бежит за ней и, подавшись туловищем вперёд, падает на землю и хватает собаку за задние лапы. He runs after her and, pitching his body forward, falls to the ground and seizes the dog by her hind legs.
Слышен вторично собачий визг и крик: «Не пущай!» A second time the dog’s yelping is heard, and a shout: “Don’t let her go!”
The words in this sentence
- из
- from, out of (+ gen)
- ла́вок
- shop, stall (n., f.) — лавка
- высо́вываются
- stick out, poke out (3pl) — высовываться
- со́нные
- sleepy, drowsy (nom/acc pl) — сонный
- физионо́мии
- face, physiognomy (gen/dat/prep sg) — физиономия
- и
- and; also, even
- ско́ро
- soon; quickly
- о́коло
- near, about, around (+gen)
- дровяно́го
- firewood, wood- (gen/acc m/n sg) — дровяной
- скла́да
- warehouse, store, depot (gen sg) — склад
- сло́вно
- as if, just like
- земли́
- of the earth (gen sg) — земля
- вы́росши
- having grown up (gerund, arch.) — вырасти
- собира́ется
- is getting ready; intends (3sg) — собираться
- толпа́
- crowd (nom)
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